Means for collecting and carrying off smoke and odors from stoves.



No. 853,530. PATENTED MAY 14, 1907. n

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MEANS POR COLLECTINGAND CARRYING OPF SMOKE AND oDoRs FRM STOVES.APPLIUATIUN FILED `Nov. n. 190s.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. VVI/IIPPLE, OF SPRINGFIELD CENTER, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR COLLECTING AND CARRYING OFF SMOKE AND ODORS FROM STOVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.1

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application iiled November 2, 1906. Serial No. 341.789.

To al?, whomJ t 'rn/tty concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. WHIPPLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield Center, in the county of Otsego and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means forCollecting and Carrying Off Smoke and Odors from Stoves, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to providea simple and efficientconstruction of device for collecting and carrying off smoke and odorsincident to cooking.

With this object in view, the inverition consists in certainconstructions andarrangements of the parts hereinafter described andparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof andalso to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the meansfor effecting the result, reference is to be had to the followingdescription and accomp anying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 illustrates in side elevation and in full lines my improveddevice for collecting and carrying 0H smoke and vapor, and also shows indotted lines the inoperative position of the hood; Figj2 is an enlargedsectional view of the device and, Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view ofone of the clamping devices employed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a cook-stove of anyconventional type and 2 the smoke outlet pipe or flue thereof.

My improved smoke and odor collector comprises a bell-shaped hood 3which is designed, in operative position, to be located above thecook-stove and said hood is provided at its upper contracted end with apreferably integral'tubular shank 4 which extends substantially at rightangles to the main portion of the hood. This shank or stem 4L isdesigned to be slipped into theupper end of a main suspending pipe 5 andsaid stem 4 is provided at diametrically opposite points with keepers 6,either one of which is designed to be engaged with the outwardlyprojecting free end of a latch spring 7 secured to the adjacent end ofthe main suspending pipe 5. By this means, as is evident, the' hood 3may be suspended with its mouth downward so as to collect the smoke andodors arising from the stove and may also be swung around so that itsmouth will face upwardly so as to be in an inoperative position out ofthe way. In either of these two positions, the latch 7 engages with oneof the keepers G so as to not only maintain the hood in one position, orthe reverse, but also to detachably connect the stem or shank of thehood to its suspending pipe 5. The pipe 5 is provided near its outer endwith a damper 5b, which may be swung to extend across the pipe and closethe same so that when the bell is removed bodily from its suspendingpipe, the latter may be closed and thus interfere in no wise with theproper draft of the smoke pipe 2.

The main suspending pipe 5 is provided in the present instance with thebranch pipe 8, which opens upwardly therefrom between the damper 5b andthe inner end of the pipe 5 and the inner ends of both the mainsuspending pipe 5 and its branch 8 are designed to extend into openingsformed for them in the smoke-pipe 2 and face upwardly as indicated at 5aand 8a. Flanges or collars are secured to the main pipe 5 and its branch8 and these flanges or collars are adapted to extend around the openingsformed in the smoke pipe 2,l so as to form a snug iit and limit theinward movement of the said suspending pipe and its branch, and theinner ends of the smoke pipe and its branch are preferably of such adiameter that they terminate far short of the opposite wall of the smokepipe 2 and therefore do not materially interfere with the draft of thesaid smoke pipe.

In order to detachably secure the entire device to the smoke pipe 2which constitutes a support therefor, I provide in the present instance,two clamping collars 9, one for the main suspending pipe 5 and one forits branch. Each of these clamping collars consists of an intermediateportion formed of two members lO curved as shown and spaced apart andconnected at their ends so as to produce a substantially crescent shapestructure and said intermediate portion formed by these two members isconnected at its ends to the hinged end portions ll that are provided attheir extremities with interlocking devices l2.

In the practical operation of applying the device to the smoke pipe 2,the inner ends of the main suspending pipe 5 and the branch 8 .areinserted in the openings formed to re- IOO IIO

tend one over the upper side of its respective pipe end, and the otherunderneath the same, as clearly illustrated in the drawings.

It is evident that the branch pipe 8, from its arrangement andconstruction will materially assist the main suspending pipe 5 to holdthe hood. 3 in a stable or secure condi tion above the stove, while atthe same time, the said branch pipe S affords an increased draft whichmay be taken advantage of whenever necessary.

From the foregoing descriptionl in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it will be seen that I have provided a very simple' andefficient construction of device for collecting and carrying off smokeand odors from articles that are being cooked upon the stove and thatthe device may be readily assembled and attached to and detached fromthe smoke pipe whenever desired, and one in which, if it is not desiredto entirely remove the device from the smoke pipe, the collect ing hoodmay be swung up to an out-of-theway or inoperative position whenever thedevice is not in actual use.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a hood, a suspendingpipe for said hood, said pipe being provided with a branch and the pipeand its branch being adapted to be inserted through apertures in thestove, and means for securing the suspending pipe and its branch to thesmoke pipe.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a bell, a suspendingpipe from which the bell is suspended, the suspending pipe being adaptedfor insertion in an aperture in thesmoke pipe of a stove and providedwith a collar adapted to surround such an aperture, and a clampconsisting of an intermediate portion composed of an Lipper and a lowermember adapted to engage the collar at the top and bottom, and twohinged end portions connected to the intermediate portion and arrangedfor interlocking engagement around the said smoke pipe.

3. A device of the character described, consisting of a main suspendingpipe provided with an upwardly facing inner end and arranged forinsertion through an opening in t e smoke pipe of the stove, said mainsusF pen( ing pipe being pro vided with a damper and with a branchsuspending pipe leading upwardly therefrom between said damper and theinner end of the main pipe, said branch suspending pipe being arrangedfor insertion in another aperture in the smoke pipe of the stove andalso having its inner end facing upwardly, a latch secured to the outerend of the main suspending pipe, and a hood provided with an angularlydisposed stem adapted to telescope in the outer end of said branchsuspending pipe and provided with diametrically disposed keepers any oneof which is arranged for interlocking engagement with said latch.

In testimony whereof I afhX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES'B. WHIPPLE. [14. s]

